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What If Being Single is Really a Great Thing?
By the artist, Nancy Spero. (American, born 1926) from “Notes in Time,” 1979. Cut-and-pasted painted paper, gouache, and pencil on joined sheets of paper.
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Hmm, I find it interesting that the artist still used the word “lack” implying deficiency. But perhaps that’s the point of the juxtaposition.
However, I’d venture perhaps “Her disconnection to a permanent male figure…”
She created it in 1979, so context is important. A woman then, without a spouse, was a radical concept even to imagine.